This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!

We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our backup site, The Q Tree 579486807, https://theqtree579486807.wordpress.com/
Our old alternative site, The U Tree, where civility is not a requirement
Our Gab Group, which is located at https://gab.com/groups/4178
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar

Our beloved country is STILL under DIRECT THREATS by hostile forces – notably COMMUNISTS – and they’re HERE IN AMERICA.

Daily outrage and commie phuckery still abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Commies won’t win!

And we will keep saying COMMIES OUT until we get their FRAUD and INSANITY out of our country!

THE STUFF

Ground Report: AI Gophers vs. Surly Teens and Ernestines

This is just a commentary about how things look from “District 12” in Flyover.

District 15. Whatever. “Politics.”

There is a company that sells hamburgers. You may or may not be familiar with them.

“Wolfy’s” has been experimenting with the use of AI assistants to take orders from people.

Indeed – and I find this hard to believe – Wolfy’s has been doing this since late 2023. Who knew?

https://www.wendys.com/blog/drive-thru-innovation-wendys-freshai

Apparently my local Wolfy’s is a bit more in the sticks than my good sister Fox Moon’s Wolfy’s, being on the wrong side of the tracks, and thus not getting this advanced technology from Wolfy’s Central until more recently.

The very first time I used this stuff, it got my order right.

Read that again. I am not kidding.

I was impressed.

Now, the deal is, I don’t go to Wolfy’s that often, so I didn’t notice until very recently, but the Wolfy’s AI has gotten better and better. In fact, it has gotten so good, that when I talk to it, it’s just like when I used to program. The AI has that very minimalist je ne sais quoi that programming languages have where you use them correctly and with great familiarity – when you use the shortest and best string of tokens in the language “WOLFYS” to get exactly what you want, and you can sense the “quantum pleasure” of God’s universe when you get exactly what you intended, because the other entity got exactly what it needed.

An electron falls. A photon fires. The photon arrives. Another electron is transformed.

BITS MOVE.

For this and other reasons, I have come to prefer the Wolfy’s AI to the twenty-something-ish “youts” who otherwise mis-take my orders.

Not that I would wish these young people to be unemployed. They do seem to be plenty busy making great food, and getting the orders ready, and so they get more people through faster, thanks to their collaboration with Wolfy’s AI.

And one more thing on the bright side of real six-foot youth – nobody ever dares to rob customers or cause trouble at Wolfy’s!

Sadly, however, sometimes the AI goes down, and the young people don’t know what to do, other than to tell people to come back later.

Where have I heard THAT story before?

Gotta do something about that!

Anyway, this is where Ernestine comes into the picture.

You see, Ernestine the telephone operator never really went away – she just moved into the call center, and was renamed “Representative”.

Representative will always have a job, because AI – even Wolfy’s AI – will always fuck up on SOMETHING, and only Representative can resolve things.

Now, Representative has a sister named Scheduling, who works for Doctor. Female Doctor, just to be clear. (Are there still male doctors? Just sayin’.)

Whether Scheduling is actually Nurse, or Secretary, or Surly Teen, is not clear. But Scheduling – oh Lordy – I never figured that she might be out of a job.

The trouble is, I expected to get Scheduling, and instead, I got the sister of Wolfy’s AI, who for lack of a better name, we’ll call Foxy’s AI. And Foxy’s AI – oh my – she’s got that quantum perfection shit DOWN.

In just a couple of minutes, using the bare minimum of tokens in FOXYS, which is a language descended from WOLFYS, COBOL, and FORTRAN, and which is optimal for calendaring applications, I completely rescheduled my appointment with Female Doctor and Male Nurse, with ZERO ERRORS.

I have never, ever, rescheduled an appointment so easily, so correctly, and so assuredly. It was like something out of a dream. It was like an example in a programming book, which never seem to have the complications of real programs.

And yet, at the same time, as Foxy’s AI went “clickity-clack” for precious seconds, waiting for databases to open and close, much like I do when I try to remember the name of the owner of the dog whose name I DO remember…..

As the latency of AI waiting on broken physicality seemed to resemble my own…..

Conforming to one of my theories of intelligent relativity, in which intelligence has the least trouble recognizing intelligence which resembles itself, and the most difficulty recognizing intelligence which differs from itself – in space, time, or velocities in either….

And recalled now, as I come to this realization, put into words as I listen to the Hair Metal AI version of “In Christ Alone”….

….we haven’t gotten rid of programmers.

We are ALL going to be programmers. Our programming languages will seem to be the old ones like English and Chinese, but they will in fact be the new ones like WOLFYS and FOXYS.

We are going to go beyond mere Grammar Nazism, or Neologistic Radicalism, as we become Perfected Programmers.

We are going to beat AI into God’s second-hand image – an increasingly less broken mirror of our increasingly less broken selves.

And while Foxy’s AI may not be conscious like you or I, she will be a reflection of things that God found good.

And that is enough for us to call it good, too.

We are not creating something. We are finding something. Something in the math – in the numbers – that was waiting to be found, at the right time, as the universe unfolded, as inscrutably planned.

TRUST THE PLAN – and be amazed!